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SPOOL FOR GARRYING AND APPLYING GOLD LEAF. No. 472,051. Patented Apr. 5, 189-2.

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NrrED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE P. HOGAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPOOL FOR CARRYING AND APPLYING GOLD-LEAF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 472,051, dated April 5, 1892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE P. HOGAN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spools for Carrying and Applying Gold-Leaf, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Heretofore gold-leaf used by painters and others for decorating purposes has been applied to suitable paper and packed for transportation and safe keeping in the form of oblong sheets arranged in books. When using the gold-leaf, the books were opened and the sheets or portions thereof taken from thence, usually by means of a bristle-brush electrified by rubbing against the hair of the head. This is the only way of removing gold-leaf from the books and applying it to the work; but it is slow and not altogether satisfactory; and it is the object of my invention to overcome both of these objections, substantially as hereinafter fully described, and as illustrated in the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my in vention, showing it mounted on a spindle and showing a rotary cutter in the act of being applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through one section of my invention, and Fig. 4 is an exaggerated side View showing the manner of applying the gold-leaf.

In the drawings, A represents a spool or roll consisting of a given number of sections a a, preferably about one-half of an inch wide. These sections are originally placed side by side, and each has a central opening I) of the same diameter, so that when forming the original spool A they constitute a continuous central opening through the spool.

B represents a web of continuous paper, preferably tissue-paper, which is neither hotpressed nor moistened, but which is specially prepared and has a coating of lamp-black or its equivalent on the side of the web coming outermost, against which the gold-leaf C is placed and held. The web B is preferably about the same width as the leaves of gold 0, and the latter is preferably applied so as to entirely cover the outer surface thereof. In wrapping the spools I generally leave a length of the outer end of web B corresponding to the circumference of the roll free from goldleaf, so that the latter may be wholly covered by the web.

Now in using gold-leaf it seldom happens that the part of the work to be gilded is of the width of the web B. This is particularly the case when applying bands or lines of gold to the work. As it would be impracticable to apply gold-leaf from my roll A for such purposes, it is with aview to the performance of such work that I have made said roll in sections. If the work requires a strip of gold of one-half of an inch or less, I put the spool on the spindle D of a lathe, as shown in Fig. 1, and then, having measured off one-half inch from either side of said roll, out through the web of paper B with a rotary cutter E or other suitable cutting implement. The cutter, after it has cut deep enough to separate the necessary width of web B and gold-leaf O, enters between the end section a and the remainder of the roll and separates it therefrom.

In order to facilitate the application of the gold-leaf of the section a thus separated from roll A,Ihave provided a journal 6, which is passed through the central opening of the section and has a button or head E on one end and a female head F, which a stud extending from its other end enters. The journal is loose in the central openings of the section a, and, as these sections with the goldleaf on them are seldom more than three or four inches in diameter, the heads E and F are grasped by the thumb and forefinger, so as to roll the section over the surface to be gilded. As is well known, the surface to be gilded is usually prepared by paint or varnish for the gold-leaf, which is applied while the said surface is yet damp. Bearing this in mind it will be readily understood how by unwinding the web until the gold-leaf is exposed and then holding the end of the web in one hand the section can be rolled over the surface and the gold-leaf applied in much less time than it takes to describe the operation and at a great saving of time and labor as compared to the present extensively-used process.

What I claim as new is 1. As an article of manufacture, a spool consisting of a number of sections of a given said spool, and gold-leaf applied to one side [0 diameter placed side by side and having a web thereof and held by and between the successof paper wound thereon with gold-leaf applied ive layers of said Web as thus wound, of asuitto one side thereof and held by and between able cutter, as set forth. 5 the successive layers of said web wound upon said spool. GEORGE P. HOGAN.

2. The combination, with a spool consisting YVitnesses: of a number of sections of a given diameter FRANK D. THOMASON,

placed side by side, a web of paper Wound on MARY SIMMS. 

